
OKSANA SKALDINA
Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral researcher
I am an environmental ecologist interested in plant/insect models and their interactions with changing environments. I investigate and develop ecological indicators of climate change and environmental pollution, considering the great potential of an organism's coloration. I have been working with social insects such as ants, wasps, and wild bees, which supply us with numerous essential ecosystem services such as plant pollination, crop protection, seed-dispersing, ecosystem engineering, and others. My current research focus is dedicated to the restoration ecology of urban ecosystems and developing new approaches to safeguard pollinator biodiversity in traffic-polluted environments. My goal as a scientist is to find new solutions for sustainable environmental management and biodiversity protection in cities.
Contact info
Organization
Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Environmental Ecology Researcher Group
oksana.skaldina@uef.fi
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Teaching Activities
I have been teaching in several courses conducted at the University of Eastern Finland such as “Structural Plant Monitoring”, “Bioindicators”, “Entomology” and participated in the development of experimental multidisciplinary online course “FISHKA” in the FISHEDU project.
Research groups and research projects
Environmental Ecology Research Group
Research groups - UEF
PROJECTS - UEF
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Publications
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Badejo, Oluwatobi; Skaldina, Oksana; Peräniemi, Sirpa; Carrasco-Navarro, Victor; Sorvari, Jouni. 2021. Phenotypic Plasticity of Common Wasps in an Industrially Polluted Environment in Southwestern Finland Insects 12 10: 888. 2021
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Planning and piloting of an online course on aquatic sciences, fisheries and aquaculture. Tarasova, Svetlana; Lazarevich, Elena; Nishaeva, Sofiia; Skaldina, Oksana / FishEDU: Capacity building in fisheries and aquaculture education in Kyrgyzstan: Lessons learnt from collaboration between the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University named after K.I. Skryabin and the University of Eastern Finland. 2021. 2021
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Badejo, Oluwatobi: Skaldina, Oksana: Gilev, Aleksei: Sorvari, Jouni. 2020. Benefits of insect colours: a review from social insect studies Oecologia 194: 27-40. 2020
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Skaldina, Oksana. 2020. Insects associated with sweet fennel: beneficial visitors attracted by a generalist plant Arthropod-plant interactions 14 3: 399-407. 2020
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Skaldina, Oksana; Ciszek, Robert; Peräniemi, Sirpa; Kolehmainen, Mikko; Sorvari, Jouni. 2020. Facing the threat: common yellowjacket wasps as indicators of heavy metal pollution Environmental science and pollution research 27 23: 29031-29042. 2020
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Contamination links between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: The neonicotinoid case. Carrasco-Navarro, Victor; Skaldina, Oksana / Networking of Mutagens in Environmental Toxicology. 2019. 2019
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Ecotoxicological Effects of Heavy Metal Pollution on Economically Important Terrestrial Insects. Skaldina, Oksana; Sorvari, Jouni / Networking of Mutagens in Environmental Toxicology. 2019. 2019
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Badejo, Oluwatobi; Skaldina, Oksana; Sorvari, Jouni. 2018. Spatial and Temporal Variation in Thermal Melanism in the Aposematic Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) in Northern Europe. ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI 55 1-3: 67-78. 2018
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Skaldina, Oksana; Peräniemi, Sirpa; Sorvari, Jouni. 2018. Ants and their nests as indicators for industrial heavy metal contamination. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 240: 574-581. 2018
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Skaldina Oksana, Sorvari Jouni. 2017. Biomarkers of ecotoxicological effects in social insects. In: Kesari Kavindra Kumar (ed.) Perspectives in Environmental Toxicology. Springer. Environmental Science and Engineering. s. 203-214. 2017